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Three-Time Loser. Beefy Alfred Dugan was a thug, and he had a long and varied police record. In 1941, already a veteran of two prison terms for narcotics-dealing and armed robbery, he drew a 12-to-15 year sentence for robbing a bank messenger of $108,000 in Asbury Park, N.J. Paroled after five years, a three-time loser, he joined the drift of strong-armed ex-cons into labor racketeering, made enough money to buy a $40,000 house in Mountainside, N.J. for his wife and two small daughters. A month ago Tough Guy Dugan, 52, turned...
...Star also backed away from massive resistance, all the state's major newspapers were on the record for a more moderate approach...
...Delayed seven weeks by rough weather and modifications to his sleek jet hydroplane Bluebird, Speedmerchant Donald Campbell tucked a cuddly teddybear mascot into the cockpit with him, roared up and down Lancashire's glassy Lake Coniston at an average speed of 248.62 m.p.h. to smash his own world record (239.07 m.p.h.), promptly declared his ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). ¶ "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan...
...Manhattan), she stood on the brink of the big time, one of the few white blues singers who ever belonged there. Ahead of her were further club dates in Chicago, San Francisco and a return to New York, as well as an LP for Dot. Said Record Executive Al Levitt, in what is only a slight exaggeration: "A voice like this hasn't been recorded in 30 years...
...week that net farm income in 1959 may drop 5% to 10% below 1958, after a year of the highest farm profits in five years (see chart). Hog and poultry prices are expected to decline, and crop prices will be lower as a result of this year's record crop and surpluses. Next year's crop may be equally large, or larger, partly because the Government will scrap soil-bank payments to farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made this year. On the other hand, the Government will have...